For this reason God gave them over to dishonorable passions. For their women exchanged the natural sexual relations for unnatural ones,

But now apart from the law the righteousness of God (which is attested by the law and the prophets) has been disclosed –

For if Abraham was declared righteous by the works of the law, he has something to boast about – but not before God.

For the death he died, he died to sin once for all, but the life he lives, he lives to God.

Brothers and sisters, my heart’s desire and prayer to God on behalf of my fellow Israelites is for their salvation.

And we know that all things work together for good for those who love God, who are called according to his purpose,

who was appointed the Son-of-God-in-power according to the Holy Spirit by the resurrection from the dead, Jesus Christ our Lord.

For God, whom I serve in my spirit by preaching the gospel of his Son, is my witness that I continually remember you

They exchanged the truth of God for a lie and worshiped and served the creation rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever! Amen.

Not only this, but we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received this reconciliation.

But thanks be to God that though you were slaves to sin, you obeyed from the heart that pattern of teaching you were entrusted to,

To them belong the patriarchs, and from them, by human descent, came the Christ, who is God over all, blessed forever! Amen.

So I ask, God has not rejected his people, has he? Absolutely not! For I too am an Israelite, a descendant of Abraham, from the tribe of Benjamin.

For the kingdom of God does not consist of food and drink, but righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit.

Although they fully know God’s righteous decree that those who practice such things deserve to die, they not only do them but also approve of those who practice them.

even before they were born or had done anything good or bad (so that God’s purpose in election would stand, not by works but by his calling) –

and I always ask in my prayers, if perhaps now at last I may succeed in visiting you according to the will of God.

For if by my lie the truth of God enhances his glory, why am I still actually being judged as a sinner?

For the righteousness of God is revealed in the gospel from faith to faith, just as it is written, “The righteous by faith will live.”

and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for an image resembling mortal human beings or birds or four-footed animals or reptiles.